I have used Sharepoint to dramatically enhance my students' peer review process. Since my first-year writing classes are totally paperless, I needed a convenient and effective way for students to electronically exchange documents and mark them with comments. Email had proven unreliable and cumbersome, and Blackboard's dropbox feature was time-consuming. Sharepoint saved many steps and made the process more intuitive.
I first secured logins for each student, then created document libraries for each project. The students were then able to use the “Add Document” feature in these libraries to automatically open a new document in Word, which could be saved to the document library by simply clicking “save” on Word's menu. Later, students reviewed these documents by first clicking on them, inserting comments withWord''s comment feature, and then clicking “save” again. I found that using Sharepoint made the electronic peer review process much easier for both him and his students and allowed him to spend more time teaching writing instead of digital troubleshooting